(BBC News) At least 15 people have died in a road crash in the Canadian province of Manitoba, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
The crash was between a semi-trailer truck and a bus carrying mostly elderly people.
Police said the collision happened on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, two hours west of Winnipeg.
In several tweets, the RCMP in Manitoba said it was responding to a “very serious… mass causality” collision, and that all of its resources, including its major crime unit, had been deployed to the scene.
Emergency vehicles, including an air ambulance and 12 ambulances, were dispatched to the scene at 11:43 local time on Thursday (17:35 BST), the RCMP said at a press conference.
Most of the seniors aboard the handi-transit vehicle were from Dauphin, Manitoba, and the surrounding areas.
At least 10 people, including the two drivers, are at hospital with likely “significant” injuries considering the “magnitude and force applied” from the crash, officials said.
The RCMP had asked motorists to avoid the area as several kilometres of the highway were closed near the crash site.
